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Monday, November 10, 2014

Deliberation halted on revision of the Worker Dispatching Act

In the evening of October 31st, a rally against the revision of the Worker Dispatching Act was held in front of the Diet building by the group “Joint Job Action.” Two hundred people joined the action. The bill was to be tabled at the Health, Labor and Welfare Committee of the Lower House this day, but deliberation was postponed because the Koumei Party suddenly proposed an amendment. A member of the committee, Communist Party diet member TAKAHASHI Chizuko gave an account of the incident. “One of the ruling parties, Koumei Party, proposed an amendment before the first committee meeting. The content of the amendment was surprising. It said ‘When there is a bad effect on the employment situation, further revision will be promptly considered’. This means that ne of the ruling parties has admitted that there may be a negative effect of the revision.
Even the Liberal Democratic Party senior committee members didn’t know about the amendment by the Koumei Party, which was forced to propose the amendment by public opinion. Let’s do our best to kill the revision bill.” There were some participants from Osaka and Mie. (M) Youtube